[G4] Can't play video

[Wayne Clodfelter]

Ron 'Hollywood' Parro wrote:
> Fellow Mac Addicts,
>     I can't figure out what is wrong with my G4 PowerBook. It 'skips' 
> while running videos from all web sites. YouTube is useless to me and I 
> have tried Amazon's reader as well. I tried downloading the video first 
> (Amazon) and waiting till the slider bar indicates the video has been 
> fully downloaded (YouTube). I get short videos attached to e-mails that 
> play fine. This is a relative new phenomenon and I can't remember any 
> changes that might have affected this.
> Help!!
> 
> Ron 'Hollywood' Parro ;>{)
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Could it be that the drive that holds the directory where the browser's 
temp file is located could be running out of storage space?
Are you monitoring CPU loading (I use MenuMeters)? Perhaps your CPU is 
not keeping up.